US Patent Issued to NIKON on June 17 for "Lens barrel and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,499, issued on June 17, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lens barrel and imaging device" was invented by Osamu Gomibuchi (Tokyo), Makoto Horikoshi (Tokyo), Mizuki Wayu (Tokyo), Tsuneo Watanabe (Tokyo) and Kenichi Kitano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens barrel and an imaging device which can be miniaturized, the lens barrel with a movable cylinder that moves along the optical axis with a change in focal length; first and second drive units in the movable cylinder; and first and second lens driven by the first and second drive units respectively to move along the optical axis relative to the movable cylinder. The movem...